Cigarette extinguisher



Nov. f8, 1949 Filed July 9,1945

M. DE LA TORRE CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Patented Nov. 8, 1949 CIGARETTEEXTINGUISHER Manuel de lavTorre, Houston, Tex.

` Application July 9, 1945,.Serial No. 603,944

4 Claims. (Cl. IBI- 256) This invention relates to a cigarette extin--gusher and embodies certain improvements over that type of extinguisherdisclosed in my United States Patent No. 2,123,719 issued on the 12thday of July, 1938.

An object of the invention is to provide a Very simple mechanism thatwill operate in such man- ;ner as to meet the diierent requirements anduses for which an extinguisher of this type is designed. v

.Another object of the invention is to provide an extinguisher of thecharacter described of suchconstruction that it will facilitate thereception of burned matches, ashes, and lighted cigaran extinguisherwhereby the cigarette stubs may be extinguished and reduced in bulkalong their full length by the clamping elements and the extinguishedstubs thereby formed to pass between the clamping elements in a somewhatmore e'icient manner and by the use of a simpler construction than thatdisclosed in the patent above referred to.

It is a further feature of the invention to provide a cigaretteextinguisher which is very compact, of very neat appearance and may becheaply produced.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention has particularrelation to certain novel features of construction, operation andarrangement of parts, an example of which is given in this specificationand illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a vertical, sectional view of a preferred form of theinvention shown in operative position with one unextinguished stubdropped into position to be extinguished and taken on the line I-I ofFigure 3.

Figure 2 is a vertical, sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure1, and

Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Referring now more particularly to the draw.- ings,'wherein likenumerals of reference designate the same parts in each of the gures, thenumeral I designates a'casing having surrounding side walls but open atthe top and bottom. There is a central'swinginglever clamp 2 pivoted atits lower end in the casing on the transverse pin 3. On opposite sidesof the clamp 2 are the fixed "fronting clamping faces 5a., 5a. iswinging clamp is provided with clamping faces "orstationary' clamps 5,5 secured in the casing,

there being the vexit passageways 4, li between the swinging clamp andthe respective stationary clamps. The'clamps are provided with the con-The central 6a, 6a on opposite sides and has transverse slots 6therethrough, in which the release plates 'lare mounted. The upper endsof the release plates are pivoted to the movable clamp by means of thetransverse pivot pin 8, fixed in said clamp and movable in alignedtransverse slots I0 of the release plates l. A pin Sxed to the casingwalls extends transversely through the arcuate slot II in the movableclamp 2 and through the lower ends of said release plates 1. The plates'I are thus'maintained in fixed relation to each other butin variablerelationship to the `faces of the swinging clamp and yet are permittedthe required freedom of movement as the swinging clamp 2 is moved fromside to side, since the distance between the pivot pin 8 in the swingingclamp and the. pin 9 fixed to the casing varies as said clamp is moved.

The stationary clamps 5 are provided with deep slots I2 in which therelease plates I3 move, being pivoted at their upper ends on the pinsI5. The fixed clamps 5 may be secured in the casing by the'screws I4,said screws serving also to hold the parts of the casing together asshown in Fig- -ures 1 and 2. The plates I3 are spaced apart vacross thecasing and are so distributed as to `sumcient pressure on the ignitedcigarette stub to crush and extinguish it with a comparatively lighteffort of the ngers.

The links I6 connecting the release plates I3 with the lower end of thepivoted clamp 2, move in recesses I8 in the side walls of the `casingout of the way of the falling compressed stubs.

When in use one or more cigarette stubs may be dropped between vtheswinging clamp and an opposite stationary clamp as indicated in Figure 1at the right wherein-a lighted stub is shown as dropped betweentheopposing series of plates 1 and I3 projecting into the receivingspace between the clamps and retained by these plates at a pointsufficiently high to prevent large sparks from dropping into a wastecontainer below when compressed.

A single movement then, of the central swinging clamp againstl said stubat the right will compress and extinguish it. This will then leave spaceat the left between the swinging clamp 2 and the left hand xed clamp 5for the reception of the next succeeding stub to be disposed of. It willbe noted from an inspection of Figure 1 that when the clamp 2 is swunginto position to compress and extinguish a lighted stub it will bespaced a short distance from the opposing' fixed clamp 5 and so relatedto it that the lighted stub will be compressed uniformly from end to endto a flat shape so that when released it will readily drop down into theash tray beneath.

As will bev noted froman inspection of Figure 1, the inside faces of theside walls of the casing are provided with vertical, ccncaveddepressions, or grooves, as i911, adjacent the inside, or clamping,faces of the fixed clamps 5, 5 to provide addition-al space and toprevent the clogging of the flattened stubs.

As the central clamp is pushed over toward one of the fixed clamps, asat the left in Figure 1, the left hand link I6 pushes the release platesi3 entirely into the slots I2 in the stationary clamp 5 on that sidewhile the pin 9 fixed to the casing holds back the release plates 'lpivoted at 8 inthe swinging clamp so that they do not project throughthe left hand compressing face of this clamp. The sets of release platesl and iii arethus moved in the slots in which they are located in thetwo clamps to the position shown in Figure 1 at the left so that thestub is compressed and extinguished between planar ol?- posing surfacesof the swinging and fixed clamps.

When the swinging clamp 2 is moved in the other direction to release theflattened cigarette stub, the edges of the release plates 'l and i3 bymeans of the pin 9 and left hand link IB, respectively, will besimultaneously projected out beyond the slots in which they move so asto then push off the flattened stub from the jaw to which it mightotherwise adhere because of its moist condition and to drop into thewaste container through the opening il, this projected position of theplates now being similar to that shown at the right in Figure l, whereinthe stub is shown as also retained in this same position of the plates.The cycle of operation is first, retention of the stub by projectedposition of the plates l and i3; then withdrawal of plates l and i3 intothe clamp faces during compression; then projection again to detach thestub as moving clamp 2 is pushed over to compress a stub in the oppositeside, and again retention in this open position of a fresh stub.

The invention is not restricted by the illustration shown and describedand changes in detail of construction may be made within the principleof the invention as defined by the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. 1n a cigarette extinguisher having a casing, a movable and astationary clamping element spaced apart and positioned to provide areceiver for ashes, lighted cigarette stubs, and the like, between theclamping elements, said movable element being pivotally mounted andopposing the stationary element and thus forming means to compress saidstubs and means in the respective clamping elements movable to releasethe compressed stubs from between said elements upon movement of themovable clamping element to open position.

2. A cigarette extinguisher provided with lateral stationary clampsspaced apart, a central movable clamp between the stationary clamps andpivotally mounted to produce a leverlike action toward and from thestationary clamps for easy crushing of lighted cigarette stubs againstthe lateral clamps, and means in the clamps to hold the lighted stubsand movable to detach the compressed stubs upon movement of the centralclamp, said movable clamp being movable to positions providing alternateopenings to allow for the compressed stubs to pass from between theclamps when the movable clamp is moved to either of said positions.

3. A cigarette extinguisher comprising a casing having spaced stationaryclamps, a central pivoted clamp between .and spaced from and movabletowards and from the stationary clamps thus forming receiving spaces,movable retaining and detaching elements in the clamps arranged to holdlighted stubs and to detach compressed stubs from theclamps, meanssecured to the central clamp to transmit its movement to the retainingand detaching elements in the stationary clamps, and means to projectand withdraw the retaining and detaching elements in said central clampupon its swinging movement when moved from one side to the other.

4. A cigarette extinguisher comprising, a casing open at the top andbottom, spaced stationary clamping elements in the casing havingclamping faces, a movable clamping element pivoted in the casing betweenthe stationary elements and having clamping faces confronting the facesof the stationary clamping elements, release plates pivoted in saidclamping elements, said movable clamping element being movablealternatively inta clamping relation with the faces of the stationaryelements to compress a cigarette stub between one face of said movableelement and one face of one of said stationary elements and to provide areceiving space for a cigarette stub between the other face of themovable element and the corresponding face of the other stationaryelement, and operative connections between the release plates of thestationary clamping elements and the movable clamping element wherebysaid plates will be projected into said receiving space to retain thestub therein and will be withdrawn from projecting position relative tosaid clamping faces.

MANUEL DE LA TORRE.

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